Dual Sport
 

Well hell, I'll get this one started.

My other ride is a DRZ400 dual sport, though I'm still trying to figure out how to mount a trunk, it's a fun weekender. Heading down to Arkansas for my first major trail riding the first week of April. My only goal....no broken bones.

Anyone else around here like to play in the mud :diitb:

I've got an 06 KTM 250 SXF and 01 YZF426 bored out to a 444. I grew up racing dirt bikes. I don't ride that hard anymore, I just like doing it for the fun/exercise now. It's a hell of a lot easier to get seriously injured on a dirt bike than it is on a road course.

All depends on what you run into.

ya, i now know why they don't design road courses with trees on them

I don't know what road courses you're doing, but the ones I'm on don't have cliffs, gravel, and trees.

Dood...you need to turn that DRZ into a SuperMoto.

nah, knobbies are awesome, it's like runnin supermoto on gravel. Flying down gravel roads at 60 is a freakin thrill

jsut got rid of my drz in favor of a cbr900rr. my new job is strait down the turnpike and it wasnt as fun to ride to work. it was funny to see reactions of people when i passed them at 70 w/ my furred out orange helmet!

I hear ya, that why I have the FZ6 also. The DRZ does not like straight line on pavement, haha

I've been a sport bike rider for years, and just last year got a couple small dual sports to run around on. I have as much fun on them as I do the sport bikes. I only wish there were some good riding areas around here; even some nice long dirt roads would do!

My first street legal bike was a yamaha trailway 200. I used it as a commuter and weekend trailbike and it was damn near indistructable and got like 60-80mpg. I alaways think about getting another dualsport for commuting cause they are so easy to handle and if i do its not gonna be a 200cc.

The new WR250X from Yamaha is calling my name as a commuter...

Trailbikes get nearly the same mileage as scooters but look way cooler.

Why not get a buell blast as a commuter? I got about 65 mpg on my last tank and rode it hard as hell.

I like the blast but i have two street bikes already (sportster and gsxr) and the sportster gets upto 50mpg when riden in a commuting way.

My bike hit 47 one tank before my mods and when I was just baby'n it to and from work...

now it's more like 37 :lol:

I can get into the 50's if i play nice on the SV

Don't think i'll be so lucky on the 1125, judging by the milage computer.

well that was in AK... I imagine in ND I could have run up into the 50's... no hills to go up... though you've gotta watch that wind :lol:

I'm hearing mid 30's on avg for the big 1125.

i heard they are neutared puppys that suckle gas like it was from a big dogs teet...

Yeah, low to mid 30's is what i'm hearing too. Not bad for what you're getting...

uh sure... you're just jealous that i will have more power and torque AND better fuel economy :lol:

but I'm sure he's not jealous of where all that powere/torque and fuel economy is going to be wasted :lol:

True... you're such an ass... can't even let me have a moment of glory.

yes I can... you had it yesterday... it's not my fault you didn't take advantage

big twin to big twin owner, gas milage is over-rated

torque pwns all

lol, cause you're stuck with it.

I like my high mpg's on my 600, and i can ride just as fast on it.

as of right now im getting infinity MGP's on it, cause i cant ride the fucking thing.

I'm getting about 12months to the drop right now...

the rc is a beast coming off the corners, as long as i can stuff you going into the corners, you aint got a pray of passing me

that being said, im slower on the rc then my 600 overall

True, it is. As long as the bike does better than my pickup, I'm ok. :lol:

And i love the torque...
Fuck clutching it, just twist to bring it up!

I'm hearing those numbers on bikes that aren't completely broken in either. So I'd imagine it goes up after a few thousand miles.

Is that why I always felt we were relatively the same speed?